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• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  , high character, and a strong match with MIT's global mission to ... to send us anything new other than the February Updates and Notes Form ... difficult decision to receive; please trust that we have done our best. Take a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks.

  

  Samuel Jay Keyser gave a talk on the history of hacks. In Where the Sun ... unusual but relevant introduction to MIT, I highly recommend this video on ... , a 2003 book on hacking published by The MIT Press. Little is known

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  of Amaud Arbery. After seeing the news a few days ago, I quickly went ... may still be at home toasting a couple of cold beers to the fact that ... everyone to focus on this one thing…. I am sad that I have become the way I

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  friends to come to a new place where we have to learn to rely on ourselves. Part of the experience is making new friends and finding a way to call this strange new place home. I feel lucky to be living in a place where

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  campaign. I was called up on a random night in October by my friend Sathya ... point after it ended, he emailed me with a new campaign his buddy Brandon ... travelling on the bus between Boston and Philly. One of them I wrote at  a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  to create a new piece. When it was first being installed, there was ... get really cold during the winter and it’s a pain to sit on them ... as a sterile place. Labs stacked on top of classrooms and everything

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am finished with my undergraduate career. I am finished with my undergraduate career.

  

  for the time left is to spend as much time as possible with people before I embark on a new adventure :) 12 days left. ... officially stop being a student blogger on... *checks watch* May 31. So, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  brain switches to a new task, however menial, it takes a certain amount of ... supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... considering a Spanish minor, I’ve had to backload them. Secondly, it makes me

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for a whole day until he flew down to New York City to appear on The ... founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  drive home to New Hampshire for a hockey game. My brother and I were part ... learn that a great way to spend an hour and delay doing a problem set was ... feet on the ice. Now hockey may not seem that foreign to many of you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  actually a painting of Escher's that's on the door to the room in Zeta Psi ... came down to a fairly simply tradeoff. On one hand, it’s important to ... adventures, take on a new hobby, and make new friends, unconstrained a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wanna be on the Radio? Your name in lights.

  

  Did you ever try to call in for radio shows? Ever want your five minutes of fame? Well here's your chance to be a blogger. Seeing that my ... you to write a blog entry about your CPW experience. If you

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  also got to read a lot of really good articles from the New England ... , as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone ... science journalist. I went there just to get a feel for what a career in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thoughts on Snow quick notes from the journal.

  

  waterproof to it as you thought. Silly: how grass looks like a bad shave when it's half-hidden under a thin layer of it. Stupid: when rain falls on ... about snow: Don't welcome it with a fire alarm and evacuation at 9

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  else on MITblogs, appears to have been born with a last name). Sympathy ... , Katelyn slept for 2 hours and still had a headache at 10:54 pm, according to ... friendship by reducing her life to a sinusoidal function. Proof of Why Katelyn

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  Sadoway’s students working on a new process to make steel with oxygen ... by Donald Guy’s Mom Almost exactly one year ago, on a Junior ... supportive of my children’s right to choose, so I bought him a “

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Answers, and live updates Live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl.

  

  left. Originally, MIT tried to build the dorm on the right (the zig ... be viewed on MITWorld... look for it there in a few weeks. I'm signing ... Hi! I'm blogging live from a lecture by architect Steven Holl, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  -ended final project where you can choose to focus on any computer graphics ... had to write code with a lot of math, that would create splines given a set of points. The next part of the assignment was to write a function

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  times a day. I miss MIT dearly, but feel so lucky to've experienced even ... democratization and governance in China. Given that I'm a twig, it never ceases to ... and a walking encyclopedia of information on health and nutrition. We

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  spend time in anther country. It’s difficult to justify spending a ... me the program ended up being essentially free. I was on my way to ... unknown place made us bond really quickly. I came back from Madrid with a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017